Kuwait, Qatar, UAE express concerns about Israel’s plans to attack city of Rafah

Istanbul, Turkey - Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) condemned on Saturday the Israeli army’s plans to attack Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry ‘expresses its deep concern about the Israeli occupation forces’ plans to attack the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip after forcibly deporting its civilians’, said a statement.

It reiterated Kuwait’s stance that rejects ‘aggressive practices and displacement schemes against the Palestinian people’.

The statement also reaffirmed its position that urges ‘the international community and the Security Council to fulfil their responsibilities in protecting innocent Palestinian civilians’.

The agency encouraged ‘the activation of international accountability mechanisms to put an end to the ongoing Israeli violations of international law, humanitarian law, and legitimate international resolutions’.

Qatar also ‘strongly condemned the Israeli threats to invade Rafah’.

Doha warned of ‘a humanitarian catastrophe in the city, which has become the last refuge for hundreds of thousands of displaced people inside the besieged enclave’.

The country asked ‘the United Nations Security Council to urgently act to prevent the Israeli occupation forces from invading Rafah and committing genocide in the city’.

Doha warned of a humanitarian catastrophe in the city, which has become the last refuge for hundreds of thousands of displaced people

Qatar reiterated its ‘firm rejection of attempts to forcibly displace the Palestinian people from Gaza’.

Meanwhile, the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its ‘serious concern about the Israeli army’s plans to launch a military operation in Rafah, which is filled with displaced Palestinians’.